Eugenio Viola, Ph.D., is the current Artistic Director of MAMBO – the Bogota Modern Art Museum in Colombia. From 2017 to 2019, he was the Senior Curator of PICA - The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in Perth, Australia, where he curated, among others, the first Australian institutional exhibitions of Kimsooja, Amalia Pica, and Cassils. From 2009 to 2016, Viola was Curator at the MADRE Museum in Naples, Italy. Here, he curated, among others, retrospective shows devoted to Vettor Pisani e Giulia Psicitelli, the first major institutional exhibition in Italy of Boris Mikhailov and Francis Alÿs, and a complex site-specific project of Daniel Buren. 

Viola has curated more than 100 exhibitions worldwide. He has collaborated with numerous international institutions, curating exhibitions devoted to, among others, Su Huy Yu (MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, 2023); Giulia Cenci (Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires); Regina José Galindo (Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 2016); Karol Radziszewski (CoCA - Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, 2014); Mark Raidpere (EKKM - The Contemporary Art Museum of Tallinn, 2013); Marina Abramović (PAC - Milan, 2012); Francesco Jodice (MSU - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2011), ORLAN (MAMC - Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint Etienne, 2007). 

In 2015, he curated the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, and in 2022, the Italian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, both critically acclaimed. 

Viola holds a Ph.D. in “Methods and Methodologies of Archaeological and Art Historical Research”; and is a scholar of the experiences related to performance and the body. On this subject, he has extensively lectured and published numerous articles. He curated retrospective projects and edited the related monographs devoted to artists such as Mike Parr (MAMBO Editions, 2024); Teresa Margolles (MAMBO Editions, Bogotà, 2019); Regina Jose Galindo (Skira, Milan, 2014); Hermann Nitsch (Morra Editions, Naples, 2013); Marina Abramović, (Sole 24 Ore Cultura, Milan, 2012); ORLAN (Charta, Milan-New York, 2007). 

He has edited over 60 catalogs and books and collaborated with the American magazine Artforum and Italian Arte for many years. His writings have also been published in Flash Art, Exit Express, Enciclopedia Treccani, and many other international magazines and publications.